ʿubaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīsūʿ On Apparent Death - The Kitāb Taḥrīm Dafn Al-Aḥyāʾ, Arabic Edition and English Translation with a Hebrew Supplement by Gerrit Bos

This book offers an Arabic edition, English translation, study and glossaries of ʿUbaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīsūʿ's (d. c. 1060 CE) important work on apparent death; an appendix moreover provides the Arabic and Hebrew recensions of ʿUbaidallāh's lost Greek Vorlage.

About the author

Oliver Kahl, Ph.D. (1993), Manchester University, is Research Fellow in the Department of Semitology at the University of Marburg. His work focuses on the history of Arabic medicine and pharmacy, and he has published widely on these and related subjects.

Gerrit Bos (Ph. D. 1989) is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the Martin-Buber-Institut für Judaistik, University of Cologne, Germany.

Product details

• Assisted by: Oliver Kahl (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.08.2018
• EAN: 9789004371286
• ISBN: 978-90-04-37128-6
• No. of pages: 354
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: Islamic Philosophy, Theology a
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)